Saturday, December 22, 2007

A cousin of mine, Tim Clark for TLC Creations, who owns a house here in Old Harry, makes these charms that are anywhere from one to three inches in size. He strings them on chains for pendants, hooks for Christmas tree ornaments and loops for pierced earrings. They are so beautiful and unique gifts to give at Christmas.

It takes many hours to make one, I would imagine. I've never tried making any but I understand it is difficult because the welk (conque, sucker,) shell is very hard and if cut with a band saw it will break into a million pieces. No, the only way to make these is by painstakingly and lovingly working the shell away until all that is left is a cross cut of the center of the shell. They have the most amazing pastel colours to them also.

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The islands of the Iles-de-la-Madeleine Archipelago are the visible summits of an underwater ridge emerging from the sea. Sand dunes link these summits, which creates the Magdalen Islands. Each individual island is a rocky, mountainous outcrop characterized by the presence of high, rounded, bare-looking hills. These hills rise from a platform, which inclines gradually towards the sea. Islanders built their houses and farms on these gently sloping areas. The area of the Magdalen Islands is 202 km².

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"The Magdalen Islands are oceanic islands in a zoo-geographical sense which have been isolated from the mainland at least since the retreat of the last Wisconsin ice sheet. There are no native amphibians, reptiles or true freshwater fish and, besides bats, only 4 species of native terrestrial mammals." - Austin W. Cameron